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The purpose of the current research was to identify and investigate the challenges of sex education and in a systematic way by searching keywords including challenge, problem and problem along with the word sex education or sex education in reliable scientific databases including: Google Scholar, PubMed, Taylor & Francis Online, Springer, Eric, Science direct, Elsevier, Scopus, SID and Magiran, in the period from January 2018 to October 2022 in English journals and also from April 2016 to March 1401 in Persian journals. Finally, 9 Persian articles and 6 English articles were reviewed. The most important challenges obtained were educational and content challenges, policy challenges  and upstream documents, family challenges, individual and social challenges, as well as the challenge of training an efficient workforce. Therefore, in line with sexual education, a comprehensive and strategic program should be designed and compiled by an expert curriculum planning team, and then, in accordance with it, training human resources specialized in this field should be carried out.  

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Purpose and background: The present research aim to explain creativity based on self-management with the mediation of creative self-efficacy was conducted in fourth to sixth grade elementary school students with learning problems. Method: The research method was a descriptive-correlation type with a path analysis design in the form of structural equations. Society The statistics of it Including students with learning difficulties 4th to 6th graders were studying in primary schools of Arak city in the academic year of 1400-1401, from which 200 male and female students (100 each gender) with learning problems were selected as the research sample using the purposeful sampling method. The tools used in this research were Shaffer's creativity questionnaire, Houghton and Neck's self-management (2012), and creative self-efficacy (kawrosky, 2010), which were completed by teachers and parents of students with learning problems. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficients and path analysis in SPSS and AMOS software. Results: The findings of the present study showed that the direct effect of self-management Dimensions on creative self-efficacy and creativity were meaningful. In this sense, with the increase of self -management, there is a positive change in the degree of academic involvement and creativity of students with learning problems is created. Thus, increasing self-management in the dimensions of reward management, visualization of success, self-engagement, setting personal goals, helping oneself, evaluating beliefs and self-monitoring, respectively. It leads to increased creative self-efficacy and creativity. Also, the investigate of Self-management dimensions on creativity, through creative self-efficacy was meaningful and Self-management relationship coefficient with Creativity through creative self-efficacy was 0.31 positive. Also, among the five dimensions of creativity, the trust in creativity component showed the most changeability in the students studied. And the component of fantasizing about creativity showed the least change variance. However, because the research model had a good fit, the relationships between the variables of the model drawn in this research were confirmed.
Conclusion: Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the dimensions of self - management through Increase creative self-efficacy positive effect On The increase creativity in five dimensions. Based on this, it can be said that self-management and its dimensions both have an effect on creative self-efficacy and also on creativity.
 

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The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of solution- focused group counseling on academic buoyancy and academic thriving of female students. The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test-follow up with control group design. The population of this research was made up of all female students of the first secondary school in Isfahan in the academic year of 1400-1401. In order to select the participants, 30 students were selected with multi-stage randomly method and replaced randomly in two experimental (15) and control (15) groups. A pre-test was implemented for both groups. Solution-focused group counseling was held for the experimental group in 8 sessions of 90 minutes. At the end of the counseling, a post-test was implemented and a follow-up test was taken from both groups. To measure academic buoyancy and academic thriving, Dehghanizadeh, and Hossienchari (2012) and Schreiner et al. (2009) academic thriving questionnaires were used, respectively. The data were analyzed using the statistical method of multivariate analysis of covariance, using SPSS-26 software. The findings showed that the research hypothesis based on the effectiveness of Solution-focused group counseling on academic buoyancy and academic thriving has been confirmed (P<0/05) and the students of the experimental group had a significant increase in academic buoyancy and academic thriving compared to the students of the control group in the post-test and follow up phase. (P<0/05). Also, the results of the follow-up phase showed that these changes were stable. Therefore, it can be concluded that solution- focused group counseling is effective for academic buoyancy and academic thriving. Educational psychologists and counselors can use solution-focused group counseling as an educational, interventional and preventive strategy to promote mental health and improve students' academic performance
 

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Social supports help people in facing stressful situations by providing them with the necessary psycho-social resources. Therefore, educational and educational situations and processes are not excluded from this. In this research, the qualitative model of educational-educational correlates of social support is explained in the evidence of Iran and the world. The type of study was applied and qualitative, and research synthesis method and meta- synthesis technique were used. The scope of research articles was between the years 2015 to 2022 for foreign research and 1393 to 1400 for domestic research. 90 articles were selected using the integration approach and the model of Sandelowski and Barroso (2007). Coding was done in the form of theme analysis with Maxqda2018 software. The findings were analyzed and implemented in the form of categories, concepts and codes. The results showed that educational-emotional correlates included (emotional components aimed at education with two concepts of positive and negative emotions), cognitive-educational included (insight-perceptual components aimed at education with two concepts of self-oriented beliefs and beliefs about the learning process), behavioral-educational (functional components oriented to education), psychological-education including (psychological components aimed at education with the two concepts of reducing psychological damage and improving psychological performance), situational-education including (school situational and education-oriented components), and occupational-education including (psychological-organizational components of teachers) correlations related to the effect of social support It was in the internal and external empirical evidence in educational-educational processes. Conclusion: According to the obtained findings, attention and attention to the category of social support and the necessity of educational and material investments through educational and legal mechanisms to increase the components related to education, which include emotional, cognitive, behavioral, psychological, situational dimensions and the status of teachers It seems necessary.
 

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The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of parent-child interaction in relationship of parenting practices with behavioral problems of elementary students. The method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was all students of secondary elementary and their parents in Bojnourd. Three hundred and seventy two students of secondary elementary were selected by cluster sampling. The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (Frick, 1991), Parent-Child Interaction (Lange et al, 2002) and rating behavior problems Scale (Connors, 1990) were completed by participants. Data were analyzed by correlation and Hayes regression analysis. The results showed that the dimensions of corporal punishment and lack of parental supervision were positively correlated and the dimensions of parenting and participation were negatively correlated with behavioral problems. Parent-child interaction was also negatively associated with behavioral problems. The results of Hayes regression analysis showed that parent-child interaction, child-mother interaction and child-father interaction moderate the relationships of parenting dimensions of poor supervision, corporal punishment, parent-child participation and positive parenting with behavioral problems. The results show that when parent-child interaction is strong, ineffective methods of poor supervision and corporal punishment do not increase behavioral problems. Also, despite positive parenting, behavioral problems will not be reduced if there is no strong interaction with the children. Therefore, the impact of parenting on behavioral problems is influenced by the parent-child interaction.
 

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 The main purpose of this study is "critical discourse analysis" of "female gender identity" in the official documents of education of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its consequences in the formal female gender education. Materials and Methods: Among the quantitative and qualitative methods in social research, in the present study, the qualitative method and the approach of "critical discourse analysis" have been used. In fact, the present study attempts to use "critical discourse analysis" of official education documents to examine whether there are any indications of the dominance of a particular discourse regarding women's gender identity in these documents: In order to achieve the objectives of the research, five official documents of education of the Islamic Republic of Iran were selected as a sample. Denial of conscious agency (despite its constructive role in discourses); Ambiguity; Semantic obstruction, formation of potentially conflicting semantic fragments, potential and sometimes actual hegemonic conflicts and interferences with informal discourse order, ambiguous patterns born of erroneous equivalence logic and then differences, etc. were evident in the construction of female gender identity. Conclusion: Identity crisis as an undeniable consequence of the discourse fluctuation of documents - failure to clarify the proposition of "gender identity" - in line with the prescriptive policies of its compilers. In other words, the domination of marginal discourse " "Otherness" is done; An event that, with the consequence of the possibility and instability of discourses in the conditions of discourse faltering, will lead to unrest and deconstruction, and ultimately the domination of rival discourse.
 Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Female Gender Identity, Gender Education

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The teaching of the Holy Qur'an forms an important part of the curriculum of primary school students. This important role, in addition to its role in establishing the religious identity of the students, leads to the realization of other educational goals in the educational system. Knowing the components and indicators of the recitation education curriculum and providing the context for designing a comprehensive model in the field of religious education. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to identify the components of the curriculum model for recitation and recitation of the Holy Quran. The approach of the current research is qualitative and its method is synthesis research. The research community is all the articles (134 articles) that have been presented in specialized and scientific databases since 2012 and 2019 regarding the curriculum components of reciting and recitation of the Holy Quran. The sample of the research is 30 articles, which were selected based on thematic monitoring, theoretical data saturation, and purposefully. The research data were collected from the qualitative analysis of the studied documents. In order to analyze the data, content analysis was used in the method of categorization based on Roberts' synthesis research model. In order to check the validity of the findings, the recoding of the findings was used based on Scott's method (2012) and the agreement coefficient between the evaluators was calculated as 74%. The components of the curriculum model for reciting and recitation of the Holy Quran were identified in 5 dimensions, 18 axes and 76 categories, including educational approach components, methodological components in education, teacher-related components, environmental requirements and evaluation.

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Due to the fact that adolescence is associated with psychological stress due to students' mental and psychological activities, such as entering university and future careers, etc., and this psychological stress can affect their physical and mental health. Therefore, in this study, the effectiveness of mindfulness training on sleep quality and mental health of Girl Students Participating in the National Exam has been investigated. This study was a quasi-experimental study of pretest-posttest type with experimental and control groups and follow-up test. The statistical population included all Girl Students Participating in the National Exam (12th grade) in Yazd in the academic year 2022-2023, 27 of whom were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 6 sessions of mindfulness training and the control group did not undergo any intervention. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) were used to collect research data. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics (frequency, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (analysis of variance with repeated measures) by SPSS-23 statistical analysis software. The results showed that mindfulness training significantly improved the quality of sleep and mental health of Girl Students Participating in the National Exam.
 

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The purpose of this research is to explain the philosophical foundations of Kant’s rational education and its requirements in terms of goals, principles and methods of education and rational education. Kant has outstanding philosophical reflections in the field of wisdom, especially practical wisdom, which leads to the general rules of the universe, and he is one of the philosophers whose views on enlightenment are similar to the Copernican revolution. He has arational approach to education. This research has been done with the analytical method of conceptual in terpretation and direct reference to first hand and translated sources, related texts, articles and Journals. Therefore first,the conceptual analysis of the texts of kant’s thoughts with the context of existence, knowledge, human, value was done, and then by using the concepts and categories related to them, finally,a list of goals, principles and methods was deduced based on rational foundations witch are based on the ontology of experimental,sensory and intellectual educational methods and based on the knowledge of the methods and based on the knowledge of the methods to answer the questions of what can I know? What should I know? What hope can I have? what is man? The process of analysis takes place and in the answer to the fourth question, human nature is linked to its social aspects such as education, especially one of the foundations of values of moral duty which is the source of reason,and on the one hand, due to his pragmatic point of view,the components are tried fundamentals of kant’s educational methods such as previous knowledge, presuppositions,analogy, deletion, addition, interpretation in the shade of anthropology should be examined, and finally, the model of proposed models for the perception of cognitive and educational construction has been discussed.
 

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of applying a teaching methodology which integrated artificial intelligence Chabots on second language learners’ speaking skills, achievement motivation, and their attitude towards learning it as a second language. The statistical population of the study included 60 English language learners who studied at Salman Farsi University in Kazerun during the academic years of 2021-2023. The selected sample was randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. The research method was an experimental method with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. At first, the pre-test of the English language proficiency was administered to both groups, and then, for 15 weeks, the experimental group was taught with the integration method of the Alexa Chabot, which is an English conversational Chabot, and the control group was taught via the traditional teacher-textbook method during the same period. At the end of the training course, the post-test of speaking skills and the motivation questionnaire was administered to both groups. T-test and multiple variance analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the data analysis showed that the teaching method with the integration of Chabot is effective in significantly improving learners’ speaking skills, achievement motivation, as well as the learners' attitude towards learning English. The results are discussed and suggestions for further research are made.
 

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The present study was conducted with a quantitative approach to test the construct validity and fit the six-component model of middle managers’ empowerment in education in Iran with field data. The statistical population of this study consisted of middle managers of education in Tehran province (about 510 people), of which more than 70 percent of the statistical population (348 people) participated in this study with available samples and answered the 66-question researcher-made questionnaire. To evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, in addition to the opinions of experts, confirmatory factor analysis was used and Cronbach’s alpha was calculated to evaluate its reliability, which varied from 0.87 to 0.93 for the six components of the questionnaire. To examine the model fit including six factors with field data, confirmatory factor analysis was used using AMOS 23 software package. The factors in the fitted model included human resource agency, self-regulation and self-development, merit-based assignment, organizational belonging, power distribution and delegation, and reform of macro policies (facilitating the extra-organizational environment), all of which had factor loadings above the acceptable threshold. The fit indices of the middle managers’ empowerment model in education showed the desirable fit of the proposed model. This questionnaire can be used to provide a model for the empowerment of middle managers in education in future studies.
 

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of education based on acceptance and commitment on parenting stress and cognitive flexibility of parents with preschool children. The design of the current research was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. The statistical method used to analyze the data was repeated measurement variance analysis (mixed design). 120 mothers who referred to the continuity center of Sari Municipality in 2018 were the research population. Two questionnaires of cognitive flexibility (Dennis and Vander Wall, 2010), parental stress questionnaire (Abidin, 1995) were the tools used in this research. In the first stage, among 60 mothers who received scores of 25-50% low in the questionnaires, 30 people were selected and were completely randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Educational classes based on acceptance and commitment were held in 8 sessions and the control group participated in classes with different content in 8 sessions. The time and place of the classes were on Mondays and Wednesdays in the Sari Municipality Continuity Hall. The results showed that education based on acceptance and commitment increases cognitive flexibility (effect size in time, 0.653) and (effect size in group, 0.331) and reduces parenting stress (effect size in time, 0.803) and (the effect size in the group is 0.416). It is concluded that education based on acceptance and commitment increases cognitive flexibility and reduces parenting stress of parents with preschool children. It is suggested to use the teaching protocol based on acceptance and commitment in schools, clinics related to education in the form of educational workshops with the aim of improving parenting styles and increasing children's adaptation.

 

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The present study used a quasi-experimental design in an attempt to evaluate the possibility of using concept mapping as a tool for teaching English speaking skills. In addition, the effect of gender on students' performance in using concept mapping in class was investigated. The participants in this study were 30 male students and 30 female students at the intermediate and advanced levels of English, who were selected from among 119 students who took the preliminary English test by Cambridge to determine students’ level of proficiency as a pre-test. Conceptual mapping was applied to the experimental group in the pre-speaking stage with the aim of organizing the participants' concepts and lines of thought, while in the control group, all teaching stages were done in the traditional method. The analysis of the obtained data showed that conceptual mapping can be used in teaching speaking skills as an effective method. Also, the analysis of the data showed that there is no significant difference between the groups of boys and girls in the construction and use of conceptual maps.
 

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The aim of this study was to investigate the role of local learning center managers in advancing the goals and needs of the local community. This research can be considered as qualitative approach research and its method is phenomenological and interpretive. The research field is all the managers of local learning centers who have been selected by targeted sampling and snowball sampling methods. Using the above two methods, a total of 26 people from the research field were analyzed and surveyed, all of whom were interviewed. Findings were divided into three parts according to the opinions of the participants and the questions. In the role of managers in recognizing the needs and problems of local learning centers, a total of 10 main categories and 41 subcategories were extracted. The main categories in this section are: needs assessment, knowledge of the neighborhood and local community, educational concerns, financial concerns, review of economic needs of the center, review of facilities of the center, review of executive issues in the center, book content, in-service courses, Feedback. Regarding the role of managers in advancing the goals of local learning centers, 5 main categories and 18 sub-categories were extracted, which are: the ability to attract cooperation to solve problems, improve environmental facilities, improve educational facilities, comprehensive issues, help create entrepreneurship. Also, in relation to managers' evaluation of the achievement of goals, 4 main categories and 11 subcategories were extracted, the main categories including satisfaction with the quality of goals, satisfaction with how to transfer goals to the local community, satisfaction with the achievement of goals, satisfaction with courses They are in the service of managers. In general, the results of this study showed that the managers of local learning centers have a significant role in recognizing the needs of the local community and through their comprehensive interaction with learners, educators and officials, will be very effective in advancing the goals.The aim of this study was to investigate the role of local learning center managers in advancing the goals and needs of the local community. This research can be considered as qualitative approach research and its method is phenomenological and interpretive. The research field is all the managers of local learning centers who have been selected by targeted sampling and snowball sampling methods. Using the above two methods, a total of 26 people from the research field were analyzed and surveyed, all of whom were interviewed. Findings were divided into three parts according to the opinions of the participants and the questions. In the role of managers in recognizing the needs and problems of local learning centers, a total of 10 main categories and 41 subcategories were extracted. The main categories in this section are: needs assessment, knowledge of the neighborhood and local community, educational concerns, financial concerns, review of economic needs of the center, review of facilities of the center, review of executive issues in the center, book content, in-service courses, Feedback. Regarding the role of managers in advancing the goals of local learning centers, 5 main categories and 18 sub-categories were extracted, which are: the ability to attract cooperation to solve problems, improve environmental facilities, improve educational facilities, comprehensive issues, help create entrepreneurship. Also, in relation to managers' evaluation of the achievement of goals, 4 main categories and 11 subcategories were extracted, the main categories including satisfaction with the quality of goals, satisfaction with how to transfer goals to the local community, satisfaction with the achievement of goals, satisfaction with courses They are in the service of managers. In general, the results of this study showed that the managers of local learning centers have a significant role in recognizing the needs of the local community and through their comprehensive interaction with learners, educators and officials, will be very effective in advancing the goals.

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The Covid-19 pandemic closed schools and other educational centers, and virtual education replaced face-to-face education. The sudden transfer of education from school to home created many challenges for teaching and learning. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the challenges of virtual education during the covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of parents of elementary school students. The research method was qualitative and phenomenological. The statistical population of the research was all the parents of students in South Khorasan province in the academic year of 2021-2022, in the number of 91,874 people, and the data obtained by the purposeful snowball sampling method and by conducting semi-structured interviews with 51 of the parents of the students were saturated. They reached an opinion. To analyze the data, the seven-step strategy of Colizzi (2002) and MAXQDA11 software were used. To validate the research data, the four criteria of Guba and Lincoln (1985) were used. Finally, 88 open codes were extracted. By examining the interviews of the participants and analyzing the codes, the experiences of parents of elementary school students were categorized in the form of four main themes, including challenges related to the environment and infrastructure, students, parents and teachers. The results, while explaining the necessity of paying attention to virtual education and its basic challenges, make this important to education administrators to take fundamental steps in order to solve these challenges.
 

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The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of collaborative and exploratory teaching methods on self-directed learning of fifth grade female students in Khorram Abad city. This research was practical in terms of purpose and semi-experimental in terms of method with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research consisted of all fifth grade female students of Khorram Abad city who were randomly selected and placed in three groups (two experimental groups and one control group). Among the statistical population, 30 students were selected by random sampling method, and these 30 students were assigned to three groups by random sampling method. The data collection tool in this research was self-directed learning questionnaire and exploratory training protocol in 10 90-minute sessions and collaborative training protocol in 9 90-minute sessions. Research data processing was done using descriptive and inferential statistics (analysis of covariance). The results showed that cooperative teaching method and exploratory teaching method have a significant effect on self-directed learning of fifth grade female students in Khorram Abad city.
 

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This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between Machiavellianism and honesty-humility traits on academic dishonesty with the mediating role of moral relativism among students of Urmia University Faculty of Literature. This research was correlational. The statistical population of the present study was all the students of Urmia University Faculty of Literature, 327 of whom were selected by cluster random sampling method. In order to collect data, Mach 4 questionnaire, Hexaco personality questionnaire, academic dishonesty questionnaire and moral relativism questionnaire were used. The data was analyzed using SPSS software and the fit indices of the extracted model and the research model were confirmed. The results showed that the direct effects of Machiavellianism on moral relativism, honesty-humility trait on moral relativism, Machiavellianism on academic dishonesty and honesty-humility trait on academic dishonesty are significant. But the effect of moral relativism on academic dishonesty is not significant. Also, the indirect effects of Machiavellianism and the trait of honesty-humility with the mediation of moral relativism on academic dishonesty were not significant either. Therefore, it is possible to prevent academic dishonesty in students and reduce it by providing educational programs based on Machiavellianism, honesty-humility.
 

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The aim of the current research is to identify the regimes of truth and effective factors in the discourse formations that shape power-knowledge relations in the teacher training of Iran from the establishment of Dar al-Funun to Farahgian University. For this purpose, by using Foucault's genealogical method and its related hypothesis, it has been analyzed and examined the events in the historical developments of teacher education in Iran that have led to the formation of regimes of truth as the dominant discourse in teacher education. The findings show that in different periods, different discourses such as "educated Mullah", "literate teacher", "expert and literate teacher" and "expert nationalist teacher" as regimes of truth have shaped such discourses and these discourses with changes in the social and political context of the society and with the emergence of new needs, they have been changed and transformed. For example, with the advent of the Islamic revolution, the discourse of "Islamic and revolutionary teacher" is considered as a prominent discourse of truth in teacher education. With this analysis, it is acknowledged that with political and social changes in the course of historical developments of education and training, regimes of truth have replaced past regimes of truth and have led to the rejection or weakening of previous discourses in the teacher training system. Therefore, such a turn in the regimes of truth is caused by power and knowledge relations, which has led to such discourses.

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Background and purpose: in terms of practical purpose and in terms of simple random sampling, it is appropriate for the volume and collection of descriptive-surveillance data. The population includes all children from the first to the fifth grade in Rah Danesh Boys' Primary School with 350 students and Parvin Etisami Girls' Primary School with 370 students located in Sanandaj city, with a statistical sample of 250 students using Cochran's formula. The standard questionnaires of the use of virtual space by Lee et al. (2008) and the emotional well-being of Keyes and Magyarmo (2003) were distributed among the target samples and after collecting them, the data were analyzed using PLS software. The findings showed that 1- there is a significant relationship between the use of virtual space and emotional well-being, 2- gender plays a moderating role between the use of virtual space and well-being, and 3- the hours of using virtual space play a moderating role between the use of virtual space virtuality and emotional well-being. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the use of virtual space and emotional well-being, the moderating role of hours of use of virtual space and gender in children of Sanandaj city.
 

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